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Evaluation Criteria


Full Applications are evaluated and ranked by panelists using the criteria listed below.

Because your application will compete with other proposals, be sure to address as many points under each criterion as possible in your application.

The grant review panel will be assigning a ranking to each criterion category according to the degree to which the project responds to the subcriteria

Helpful Hint: Print out this page and refer to it often as you write your application.


Artistic Merit

  • Commitment to high artistic standards
  • Innovative programming that challenges audiences and the community
  • Recognition locally and/or nationally for excellence

Financial Position

  • Accurate budgets
  • A diverse base of financial support through earned income, private funding and government sources
  • Effective development strategies and fundraising activities
  • Budget supports artistic efforts and promotes organization's stability
  • Formal plan or strategy to deal with existing or anticipated fiscal challenges
Administrative Ability
  • Qualifications and experience of management staff
  • Board governance structure, responsibilities and involvement
  • Sound business management and marketing
  • Organization's ongoing strategic planning process

Public Value

  • Demographics and characteristics of the audience the organization serves
  • Commitment to community outreach and education programs, such as those that directly impact families, youth, seniors, and people with disabilities.
Diversity
  • Effectiveness of organization in developing audiences that represent the ethnic diversity of Phoenix
  • Effectiveness of programming choices that were made to reach out to ethnic audiences, and accessible programs targeting ethnic communities
  • Organization's efforts to recruit board, staff, artists and volunteers who represent the ethnic diversity of the city.

 

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